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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts
- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: Spliting files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.204056.26210@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <1em0sbINNjp5@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:40:56 GMT
- Lines: 84
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- In article <1em0sbINNjp5@bigboote.WPI.EDU> gregs@wpi.WPI.EDU (Floppy) writes:
- > I couldn't find out or remember who had asked this questions, but a
- >little while ago someone asked how to break files up. I wrote a little
- >Pascal program in TP6.0 that does this quickly and easily. Here is the
- :
- >begin 644 splitfil.zip
- >M4$L#!`H````&`"1M=1G:ZR\R@2$``!`P```,````4U!,251&24PN15A%#P`2
-
- That is very nice, but unfortunately you are going about this the
- wrong way. Blessfully we have not had these problems for a long
- time, and let's hope they do not recur.
-
- All the best, Timo
-
- -From: garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq30.zip Frequently Asked Questions
-
- 13. *****
- Q: May I just go ahead and post binaries to discussion newsgroups?
-
- A1: First of all this should not be taken as a recrimination
- against any individual poster of binaries to a discussion newsgroup,
- but rather as a reminder to all of us of the potential problems
- involved. Because this information is at the same time intended to
- help the well-meaning posters of binaries, there are pointers at the
- end of this item on how to make your binary available in the proper
- way.
- If someone sees these things differently, ok, but please note
- that I would rather not get flaming, indignant arguments crashing in
- over this issue. I'd prefer not to waste the time with the
- bickering. (All civilized views are naturally always welcome).
- Also please note that it does not make a decisive difference
- whether these posting in fact just contain sources and no
- executables. The problems are similar whatever (binary posting or
- something else) we decide call this method of distribution. The same
- applies whether the binary posting is a short or a long one. This is
- not just a simple question of "band width" (a term some users are in
- love with :-).
- I know and understand that most of who do this mean well, and
- wish to contribute to the general usefulness of the news. We all
- appreciate that. Nevertheless, I would strongly advise against
- posting binaries to unmoderated discussion newsgroups. On top of
- that the net rules don't like it, let's look at this from a purely
- practical point of view. If other netters follow suit and start
- posting binaries to discussion newsgroups not meant for this
- purpose, there are several potential problems:
- 1) The traffic will soon explode, since it is bound to be more
- or less haphazard. This is bound to invoke action sooner or
- later from the systems along the feed and/or net
- administration.
- 2) There are no guarantees against trojans and other nasties.
- (This does not mean that the other methods are absolutely
- safe, but the likelihood is smaller by far.)
- 3) The probability of commercial material being posted over the
- net increases, with all the consequent repercussions.
- 4) The idea is very wasteful of net resources. Remember that
- there are over 80000 readers in eg comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d.
- Much better to put/get stuff into/from the orderly moderated
- groups, or use anonymous ftp, mail servers, or good BBSes.
- 5) Even should the binary posting be just a short minor one, it
- may easily snowball by invoking others. Even if a single
- binary posting need not be harmful in any way per se, the
- danger of the snowballing effect must be kept in mind.
- Now what to do if you have a useful binary you want to distribute. A
- much better avenue than posting it, is telling where the utility is
- available. Or if it is not yet available anywhere on the net, first
- upload it to a suitable ftp site, or send it to the relevant
- moderator of the binary postings (provided there is a suitable
- binary group on the net). If you wish to have the instructions for
- submitting material to the garbo.uwasa.fi MsDos & Windows archives
- I'll be happy to send you our upload instructions if you email me
- for them. Or if you wish to FTP the instructions directly, they are
- available as garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/UPLOAD.INF.
-
- A2: If you have read an earlier version of this FAQ collection
- please note that I gave errorneous information about the nature of
- the alt.sources newsgroup. It is definitely not for distributing
- binaries but for source code only.
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- Prof. Timo Salmi
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
- Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
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